The medical-group unit of Bloomfield health insurer Cigna Corp. is investing about $20 million this year in construction projects at its clinics throughout the Phoenix, Ariz., area, BizJournals.com reports.
This expansion comes just as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act kicks in and increases access to health care to the uninsured, creating even more demand on physicians during times of physician shortages, The Phoenix Business Journal reports.
As previously reported, Cigna Medical Group’s largest investment to date is moving its downtown Phoenix urgent care center to 3003 N. Third St., from its former facility at Seventh Street and McDowell Road. CMG invested $15 million in the 95,000-square-foot clinic and urgent care that runs on solar power.
The multi-specialty group practice also is pumping an additional $3.6 million to upgrade five of its existing multispecialty centers throughout the region, PBJ reports.
In addition, the group is in the early stages of creating a new health center. Executives plan to conduct focus groups with Medicare patients to see what services would be important to them in a health center.
